Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The Letters of Sir Walter Scott and Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe to Robert Chambers, 1821-45
Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The Poetical Remains of Robert Chambers
Author: Robert ChambersPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: The Letters of Sir Walter Scott and Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe to Robert Chambers 1821-1845
Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
ISBN: 9781849210614
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
The early life of Robert Chambers embracing the period of his connection with Sir Walter Scott has already been described by his brother William in the Memoir of himself. But while Dr William Chambers had acccss to many early papers now in my possession, he made little use of these, and printed no letters of this period. The letters of Sir Walter Scott printed in the Memoir of William and Robert Chambers (1872) were written at a later date, and have no reference to that subject which first awakened in the great man sympathy for a young and struggling literary aspirant. With the exception of the above-mentioned letters, any extracts now printed from Scott manuscripts belonging to me appear for the first time. One of these papers, recently discovered, is the first portion (incomplete) of a History of the Canongate, and may have formed part of that work on the antiquities of Edinburgh which Scott, in collaboration with Mr Skene of Rubislaw, had at one time intended to write. After seeing the first two parts of Robert Chambers's Traditions of Edinburgh, Scott's original idea-as we are told by the author in his Preface to the last revised edition-was abandoned, and many of his notes handed on to his youthful protege and friend. The same Preface makes it no less clear that, besides Sir Walter Scott, Robert Chambers was equally indebted to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe for much valuable information. The series of letters from Mr Sharpe now printed, while slight and unimportant in themselves, are at the same time curious and original, besides being typical of the man himself, as described by contemporaries. Robert Chambers's account of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe is very striking, and gives a better idea of this eccentric genius than is to be found in any biography. It reads as follows: 'Looking back from the year 186S, I feel that C. K. S. has himself become, as it were, a tradition of Edinburgh. His thin, effeminate figure, his voice pitched in alt.-his attire, as he took his daily walks on Princes Street: a long blue frock-coat, black trousers (rather wide below, and sweeping over white stockings and neat shoes), something like a web of white cambric round his neck, and a brown wig coming down to his eyebrows-had long established him as what is called a character. He had recently edited a book containing many stories of diablerie, and another in which the original narrative of ultra-presbyterian Church History had to bear a series of cavalier notes of the most mocking character. He had a quaint, biting wit, which people bore as they would a scratch from a provoked cat Essentially, he was good-natured and fond of merriment. He had considerable gifts of drawing, and one caricature portrait by him, of Queen Elizabeth dancing, " high and disposedly," before the Scotch ambassadors, is the delight of everybody who has seen it.
Catalogue of Books Printed for Private Circulation
Author: Bertram DobellPublisher:
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Category : Privately printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
A Catalogue of Some of the Rarer Books, Also Manuscripts, in the Collection of C.E.S. Chambers
Author: Charles Edward Steuart ChambersPublisher:
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Category : Private libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Travels through France and Italy
Author: T. SmollettPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Travels through France and Italy" by T. Smollett. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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Author: The Printed Works of Robert Burns. A Bibliography in Outline
Author: William Craibe AngusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burns, Robert
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired Since 1925: Manuscripts 1-1800, charters and other formal documents 1-900
Author: National Library of ScotlandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description